106 EUPHORBIACEM. [ CHROZOPHORA 



3. C. prostrata, Dalz. in Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. FL 233 ; 

 Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 607. C. plicata, forma prostrata, Hook /. in 

 F. B. I. v, 410. 



A procumbent humifuse stsllately woolly herb ; branches many, spread- 

 || ing from the root, woolly -torn entose. Leaves |-1 in. long and about 

 as broad, deeply bullate, often dark purplish -brown, finely pubescent 

 above, densely stellate-woolly beneath, base eglandular. Flowers in 

 short few-flowered axillary racemes ; bracts linear, J J in. long. 

 Male flowers. Calyx % in. long. Petals smaller, elliptic-lanceolate. 

 Stamens 15, in two whorls. Fern, flowers. Sepals linear, acute. 

 Petals linear, smaller and narrower than the sepals. Capsule in- 

 in diam., stellately woolly, without silvery scales. 

 Gorakhpur district (Dulthie) ; Naorangah (Jacquemont). DISTRIB. : 

 Bengal, in Behar, Patna (Buch. -Hamilton)- Wall. Cat. 7716 C. partly ; 

 Punjab Plain, Lahore (T. Thomson), Multan (Edgeworth 8028), 

 Jabalpur (Vicary) ; C. India, Guna (King) ; C. Prov., Nimar district 

 near Hewra (Duthie) ; without locality (R. Thompson) ; also in the 

 Bombay and Madras Presidencies, and extending to N. Africa. 



VAR. parvifolia. C. parvifolia, Klotzsch ex- Schweinf. PL Nilot. 10. 

 Leaves longer than broad, 2-glandular at the base. Bundelkhand, in 

 black soil (Edgeworth 8029) ; N. Oudh in the Kheri district (Duthie) ;. 

 Lucknow (T. Anderson) ; Mirzapur (Griffith), Farakhabad and 

 Fatehpur (Griffith 4794). DISTRIB. : Punjab Plain : (Edgeworth 

 126), (T. Thomson 1508), (Drummond 3061, 6348), Sind (Stocks 547) ; 

 extending south to Bombay and Madras Presidencies, also in N. 

 Africa. 



14. BALIOSPERMUM, Blume ; FL Brit. Ind. v, 461. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, 

 penninerved or 3-5-nerved at the 2-glandular base. Flowers small, 

 monoecious or dioecious, apetalous, arranged in panicles or racemes. 

 MALE fl. globose. Sepals 4-6, membranous, orbicular, concave, 

 imbricate. Disk of. 4-6 glands. Stamens 10-30 ; filaments slender, 

 free ; anthers teririnal, the cells adnate throughout to the broad con- 

 nective, dehiscing introrsely, the slits at length becoming lateral. 

 Pistillode none. FEM. fl. Sepals 5-6, lanceolate, entire or toothed,, 

 sometimes accrescent in fruit. Disk entire. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 styles rather long, stout, 2-fid. or-partite, stigmas smooth, ovules 

 solitary in each cell. Fruit a capsule of three 2-valved crustaceous 



